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Low Platelet Count, Hyperinflammation Of The Lungs, Shortness Of Breath, Wheezing, Headache. On Morphine. Suggestions?

my platelet count is 140,000 I just had a chest x ray what shows hyperinflammation of the lungsI have shortness of breath wheezing and whistling and a chronic severe headache that will not go away and I currently and have been taking morphine for over a year due to a failed back surgery I was wondering about the hyper inflammation of my lines and it couldn t be COPD and are the headaches related
Sat, 30 Mar 2013
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Hi Kellyhawk

your platelet count has not reached to a critical level. hyperinflation of lung, SOB, wheezing sound can be due to common diseases asthma and COPD. while asthma symptoms are on and off, copd symtoms are persistent and progressive. your headache, if in eyebrow region, can be due to frontal sinusitis, which usually aggravates on downward gaze.

you should get a xray paranasal sinus for the same and pulmonary function testing for your shortness of breath and wheezes and accordingly you will be prescribed antibiotics, Inhaled bronchodilators and if you have allergic symptoms then antihistaminic+- nasal steroid.
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Low Platelet Count, Hyperinflammation Of The Lungs, Shortness Of Breath, Wheezing, Headache. On Morphine. Suggestions?

Hi Kellyhawk your platelet count has not reached to a critical level. hyperinflation of lung, SOB, wheezing sound can be due to common diseases asthma and COPD. while asthma symptoms are on and off, copd symtoms are persistent and progressive. your headache, if in eyebrow region, can be due to frontal sinusitis, which usually aggravates on downward gaze. you should get a xray paranasal sinus for the same and pulmonary function testing for your shortness of breath and wheezes and accordingly you will be prescribed antibiotics, Inhaled bronchodilators and if you have allergic symptoms then antihistaminic+- nasal steroid.